BS2-6-bot by Jonas Aronsson

This is my BS2-6-bot, which I built during the last six
weeks of school here in Sweden. It was a kind of "special
exercise" we made. I choose to build this six-legged robot,
because I've seen some others, and they were so cool!
Those six week were the best weeks of all my years of education!
I worked with the Basic Stamp II microcontroller. It was
a great challenge to get all things working together,
legs, servos and electronics!
I Made the robot from scratch, assembled all parts myself.
I hope this page will give you inspiration to do
something like this, because it's really interesting and fun!
And you also learn a lot!
Features:
¤ Body of Lexan-plastic
¤ Uses Basic Stamp II as "brain"
¤ Hitec 303-hobbyservos
¤ Six legs of aluminiumpipes
¤ Independentent navigation by movable IR
¤ Remote access (by Sony remote)
¤ 5V voltage-system
¤ Joints of aluminiumpipes
The robot is self-navigating, it uses a IR-module mounted
on a "servo-head" to avoid obstacles. Depending on
direction and obstacles, it makes sounds and chirps. It
also has a "pulse" LED.
By using a remotecontroller from a Sony CD-player, you
can override the program and move the robot by remote.
The "brain" consists of a Basic Stamp II microcontroller,
and it moves by sending pulses to the three servos.
The only thing I bought were the BSII, four servos and
some electrical parts.. so the cost were about 100$ I
think!
More pictures? Visit my homepage: http://home.bip.net/jonas.aronsson
Email: jonas.aronsson@mail.bip.net